Metro Weekly

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  • Fantasy Island

    By on January 12, 2005

    My mother's main goal in life is to be warmer. At any given moment, she's devoting a significant portion of mental resources to figuring out...

  • Busted!

    By on January 5, 2005

    Among the more scintillating New Year's resolutions I heard this year was one friend's declaration that 2005 is the year of cleavage. While I don't...

  • Barriers to Health

    By on January 5, 2005

    Ironically, a few weeks after Melissa Etheridge's breast cancer diagnosis helped put ''a lesbian face'' on cancer, the same-sex marriage backlash as witnessed in the...

  • Tsunami Spares Gay Enclave

    By on January 5, 2005

    On Dec. 26, 2003, an earthquake in Bam, Iran, killed nearly 30,000 people. A year later to the day, history made a terrifying encore with...

  • Baker Bids Clinic Farewell

    By on December 22, 2004

    After five years at the helm, Cornelius Baker is stepping down as the head of Whitman-Walker Clinic. The Dec. 15 announcement comes not long after...

  • You Shouldn't Have

    By on December 15, 2004

    A billionaire talk show host had a psychotic episode on national television, and then everyone got Pontiacs. ''Everybody gets a car! Everybody gets a car!''...

  • Challenging Principals

    By on December 15, 2004

    Minors may not be allowed to vote, but that certainly doesn't allow them to live outside politics. According to a Dec. 9 press release issued...

  • Equal Opportunity

    By on December 8, 2004

    Job change is in the air. I know this because I've just given notice at my current place of employment and am poised to start...

  • SLDN's Full Court Press

    By on December 8, 2004

    When Monica Hill joined the Air Force in the 1990s, she and her partner thought it was an excellent way to both act on her...

  • Shake-Up at HRC

    By on December 1, 2004

    Less than one year after taking the helm, Cheryl Jacques has resigned as the head of the Human Rights Campaign, the organization announced Tuesday evening,...

  • Suit Your Shelf

    By on December 1, 2004

    There's something so clean and benign about a Skandia shelving unit that you hardly notice it's a tool of the devil until you assemble it...

  • Making the Syphi-list

    By on December 1, 2004

    Recently released data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tracking sexually transmitted diseases in 2003 does not offer much good news for...

  • First Class

    By on November 17, 2004

    In the coldest stretch of Iowa winter during my last two years of high school, there was a bittersweet part of each day: walking outside...

  • No Cherry on Top

    By on November 17, 2004

    Four gay and lesbian community groups that were the designated beneficiaries for last spring's Cherry 9 circuit party will not be receiving any Cherry donations...

  • A Far Cry

    By on November 10, 2004

    Among the tears shed this Election Day were those of my friend Gerrit, who is five and who really hoped with all of his heart...